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Why Do So Many Gay and Bisexual Men Struggle With Body Image?

By Philip Ellis — 2019

What began as a proud assertion of identity has itself become a trope; the stereotype of a gay man now is one who goes to the gym and takes care of himself.

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Falling in Love with Marriage

When a friend first presented to me the arguments for gay marriage, in 1994, I thought the whole idea was ridiculous. In the face of staggering prejudice against us, marriage felt so remote as to be irrelevant.

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Andrew Solomon
2013
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The Queer Art of Divorce

Composer Ethan Philbrick and novelist Torrey Peters discuss what it means to make art and community after a marriage ends.

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Haley Mlotek
2021
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For Queer Men of Color, Pressure to Have a Perfect Body Is About Race Too

For many of us, men with broad shoulders, narrow hips, taut muscles, and white skin — sun-kissed or pale under hot lights — became an ideal we couldn’t escape. We coveted images of these bodies like treasure, and they educated us in the rules of attraction.

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Naveen Kumar
2019
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Sex, Intimacy, and Being Gay

Sex seems central to intimate and romantic relationships. If it is a means of intimate communication, and communication is the secret to a lasting and healthy relationship, why don’t we gay men talk about it that way more often?

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J Nelson Aviance
2014
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Small Daily Struggles Make LGBT People Feel Like They Have to Hide

One big surprise (to straight people at least) is that over two thirds of LGBT people avoid holding hands in public.

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Christine Jackson-Taylor
2018
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Reasons to Have Pride in 2012, Part 1

Because there are out WNBA players.

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Advocate Contributors
2012
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Hey, Supreme Court Justices, Same-Gender Marriages Are Not Experiments!

As the Supreme Court justices grilled the lawyers on both sides of the marriage equality cases before them, I found myself getting irritated at suggestions that the country may not be ready for full marriage equality, and at questions about the potential impact of same-gender marriages on...

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Nancy Wilson
2013
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